LIGHT OF DAY, DAY OF DARKNESS

This review could be the shortest ever: Excellent. But, ok let's see why this second release of the Norwegian band is so excellent. First as you may have notice, the album is a whole unique song of 60 minutes: the dream of many musicians is made a reality by guitarist Tchort (Carpathian Forest, Ex. Emperor, Ex. Satyricon), who composed all the music and lyrics for this masterpiece.

Musically dedicated to his son, the song has all you wish to find, from soft accoustic passages to heavy chords, saxophone solo to more variable speed riffs, women screams to growls, but never hitting the extreme limits of each style and above all, maintaining the logic of the song. And that's what amaze me the most: whereas some bands tend to make long songs a succession of riffs, this one is very homogeneous, you really feel like listening to a single song. Lyrically dedicated to the Bottery brothers (In The Woods, and former GC members), the soft and quite monotonous voice of Kjetil Nordhus perfectly scatters some interrogations such as "Why am I not what I used to be?", "Where did I fail?","Why do you torture me?", "Would I then reach divine entity?", that is to say "Doom" lyrics for sure! Dream, insanity, perfection, etc. "An everlasting mental and emotional journey" as Tchort himself said. The sound is good, you won't notice any bad things about it, and the production was made under Tchort control so that the album cannot sound in a different way than he wanted it to be. "This is my musical legacy", he says, and I cannot say more.

Oh yeah, I gave it a perfect score , which I don't gave so easily as others do...but if this release is not a masterpiece, WTH is it? Anyway, no review could tell you how good it is, so find Light of Day, Day of Darkness now!